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Re: Railway time (Standard Time) undone once again in the United States.
Author: ex-BN
Date: 03-08-2015 - 11:31
George Andrews Wrote:
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> The U.S. Time Zones as established by the
> Railroads are not always easy to understand,
> either. Idaho is in both Pacific and Mountain time
> zones, split North and South. Oregon is in Pacific
> time zone EXCEPT for Ontario in Eastern Oregon,
> which is on Mountain time. This is due to the
> railroad crew change point being located there.
> Yet an East train crew going on duty in
> Sandpoint,Idaho ( Pacific time zone ) started out
> on Mountain time !!! I know this was to allow a
> train crew to stay on one time zone for their
> entire run, but still, it's confusing.
> If you REALLY want to be confused, try being an
> over the road trucker. Federal regulations require
> a truck driver to keep log books based on the time
> at their home domicsle, which means a trucker
> based in the Pacific time zone has to keep
> subtracting an hour from the local time for each
> new time zone from West to East that they drive
> into. This is great fun when driving from
> California through Arizona, as you have to
> remember whether it's Daylight time or Standard
> time. I used to keep a small travel alarm clock
> set to " California Time " in my cab, so I would
> not forget to subtract an hour when running a lay
> - over to Arizona points.
Sandpoint, ID is a railroad time change ("civilian" time changes at the Montana border) but crews do not go on duty there. Crews go on duty in Spokane, WA or nearby Hauser, ID for either Whitefish, MT or Missoula, MT. However the dispatcher zone does change there. From my experience I've seen railroad time changes at points where dispatcher districts change. That makes much more sense.
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> The U.S. Time Zones as established by the
> Railroads are not always easy to understand,
> either. Idaho is in both Pacific and Mountain time
> zones, split North and South. Oregon is in Pacific
> time zone EXCEPT for Ontario in Eastern Oregon,
> which is on Mountain time. This is due to the
> railroad crew change point being located there.
> Yet an East train crew going on duty in
> Sandpoint,Idaho ( Pacific time zone ) started out
> on Mountain time !!! I know this was to allow a
> train crew to stay on one time zone for their
> entire run, but still, it's confusing.
> If you REALLY want to be confused, try being an
> over the road trucker. Federal regulations require
> a truck driver to keep log books based on the time
> at their home domicsle, which means a trucker
> based in the Pacific time zone has to keep
> subtracting an hour from the local time for each
> new time zone from West to East that they drive
> into. This is great fun when driving from
> California through Arizona, as you have to
> remember whether it's Daylight time or Standard
> time. I used to keep a small travel alarm clock
> set to " California Time " in my cab, so I would
> not forget to subtract an hour when running a lay
> - over to Arizona points.
Sandpoint, ID is a railroad time change ("civilian" time changes at the Montana border) but crews do not go on duty there. Crews go on duty in Spokane, WA or nearby Hauser, ID for either Whitefish, MT or Missoula, MT. However the dispatcher zone does change there. From my experience I've seen railroad time changes at points where dispatcher districts change. That makes much more sense.
